2023-07-17 05:30:24
Traffic interrupted on the Crimean bridge after an “emergency”
“Traffic was interrupted on the Crimean Bridge. An emergency occurred in the area of the 145th pillar from the Krasnodar Territory »located in southwestern Russia, said the Russian governor of the annexed Crimean peninsula, Sergei Aksionov, on Telegram overnight from Sunday to Monday, without specifying the nature of the incident.
“The police and all the competent services are hard at work”he added, asking motorists to choose an alternative route.
A coordination center has been set up within a Crimean ministry, Russian state agency TASS reported, citing local authorities.
Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, serves as a rear base for Russian forces, in particular for sending reinforcements and maintaining equipment. The few bridges connecting the peninsula to occupied southern Ukraine are essential to the conduct of Moscow’s military operations.
Inaugurated in 2018, the bridge that spans the Kerch Strait was damaged in October 2022 by a powerful explosion attributed by the Russian authorities to a truck bombed by the Ukrainian secret services. kyiv had denied being at the origin of this explosion.
In June, the Chongar bridge, linking annexed Crimea to a partially occupied region of southern Ukraine, was hit by a Ukrainian strike, according to Russian authorities. The head of administration for the occupied part of the Kherson region later stated that he was not “no longer usable for traffic” For now.
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